January 29, 2007

Frankly...

Gates promises Vista will wow PC buyers

...I would be more impressed if I could have some assurance that I could use it all day long without planning for at least three complete system crashes. If it wouldn't allow itself to be taken over by malicious spam. If it didn't have an assortment of stupid dings and whistles and screeches.

But what do I know?

Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 29, 2007 01:25 PM
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We're lined up to have Vista delivered and I couldn't be less thrilled.

We'll see.

Posted by: Janis Gore at January 29, 2007 01:32 PM

Let us know how it goes. If nothing else, it should be good for plenty of blogfodder.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 29, 2007 02:00 PM

I'm not technical enough to make an issue of it.

Posted by: Janis Gore at January 29, 2007 02:06 PM

It appears to be a complete memory and processor hog and the words from ZDNet are that if your machine is more than 18 months old, it will be underpowered and unreliable with the new operating system.

XP is working well for me so I'm not switching until I need a new computer. Heck, I only upgraded from 98 less than 2 years ago!

Posted by: Nate at January 29, 2007 04:03 PM

I've heard the same thing about hardware requirements. I'll keep XP as long as I can.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 29, 2007 04:08 PM

My computer is just a few months old, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Lyman's is older, but should be big enough to handle it.

Posted by: Janis Gore at January 29, 2007 04:25 PM

The problem with most of these things is they can perform 150,000 tasks that you never really need to do. Doing things you actually want to do is a lot harder because you have to dig through all that other crap to get to what you want.

What bugs me most about Msoft is that they spend so much time deciding for me what I want to do. I don't want a thousand tiny popup bubbles telling me that my fly is unzipped - I probably know it, and I left it that way for a reason. If I was more of a geek than I am already, I'd switch to Linux & be done with them. But I'm lazy and not that much of a geek, so I stay enslaved to Bill & co.

Posted by: skinnydan at January 30, 2007 08:02 AM

You might also want to zip up that fly.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 30, 2007 08:12 AM

not to be a smartypants, but if you want to work all day without system crashes, you're going to have to get a mac

Posted by: Dave at January 30, 2007 09:31 AM

True, but we are all at the mercy of our MIS department here.

::sigh::

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 30, 2007 09:47 AM